Vocabulary
An environment/place that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
These multi celled organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis.
What are Plants?
A group of ecosystems with similar climates and therefore similar organisms.
What is a biome?
The definition of biodiversity is _____________________.
What is the variety of different organisms living in a certain area?
The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitic interaction/symbiosis.
What is a host?
The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings. This includes abiotic and biotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers in a food web.
What is primary?
The biome that is bitterly cold, dry, flat plain with only a few, short plants & animals scattered around.
What is tundra?
The term given to a species that plays a very important role in an ecosystem. The ecosystem would fall apart quickly if this species disappeared.
What is a keystone species?
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain in the 4th trophic level. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
The two major types of water ecosystems, based on water type.
What are freshwater and marine.
The two reasons biodiversity is important.
What are stable food web, stable gas cycles, keep populations in check, etc?
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
This is a graphic to show how energy in a food web is transferred. Usually there is a large base and a pointed top.
What is an energy pyramid?
The name given to trees that lose their leaves during the winter.
What is decidious?
Areas on Earth with the most biodiversity and are therefore protected areas.
What are coral reefs, tropical rainforest?
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
What is predation?
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
What is a food chain?
What is the total percentage of energy used + heat lost as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer, etc.?
What is 90%?
List 3 of the 6 major biomes.
What are the rainforest, desert, grassland, deciduous forest, pine forest, or tundra?
This group of species are very sensitive to environmental changes. Usually they are the first to be hurt due to pollution.
What are indicator species?
A group of organisms that are genetically similar with variations and can mate with each other and produce viable offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
What is a species?